1 Corinthians 15:10 Cross References - MNT

¹⁰ But by the grace of God I am what I am, and that grace of his, bestowed upon me, did not prove ineffectual. I labored more abundantly than all the rest, yet not I, but by the grace of God that is with me.

²⁰ "For it will not be you who is speaking, but the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you.

¹ Then I ask, Did God cast off his people? No indeed. For I also am an Israelite, a son of Abraham, a member of the tribe of Benjamin.

⁵ In the same way also at this time there is a remnant chosen by gift of grace. ⁶ But if it is by grace, it is no longer of works; or else grace is no more grace.

³ For, through the grace that was given to me, I tell every man among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but so to think, as to think soberly, according to the measure of faith which God has given him.

¹⁷ I have then my boast in Christ Jesus concerning the things of God. ¹⁸ For I will not dare to speak of any thing except that which Christ has done through me to bring the Gentiles to obedience by word and deed, ¹⁹ through the might of signs and wonders, in the power of the Holy Spirit. So that beginning at Jerusalem and its environs, I have proclaimed without reserve the gospel of Christ, even as far as Illyricum. ²⁰ My ambition has been, however, to preach the gospel where Christ's name was not already known, so that I might not build upon another man's foundation.

⁶ I planted, Apollos watered, but God made the seed grow.

⁷ For who makes you a differ, brother? Or what have you that you did not receive? But if you did receive it, why are you boasting as if you had not received it?

² by which also you are saved, if you are holding fast the message which I preached to you; unless indeed you have believed in vain.

⁵ Not that I am sufficient in myself to reach any conclusion in my own wisdom; but my sufficiency is from God.

¹ As a worker with him I beseech you not to receive the grace of God in vain.

¹² I have not indeed the audacity to class myself among, or compare myself with, certain of the self-commenders; yet they are not wise in measuring themselves by one another and in comparing themselves with one another. ¹³ I, however, will not indulge in undue boasting, but will confine it within the limits of the sphere to which God has assigned me—a sphere which reaches even to you. ¹⁴ For I am not overstepping the limits of my authority, as though I reached you not; since I have already come even as far as Corinth to proclaim the gospel of Christ. ¹⁵ I am not "boasting beyond measure in the labors of others," but it is my hope that, as your faith goes on increasing among yourselves, by the enlargement of my appointed limits, ¹⁶ I may carry the gospel to countries beyond you; and not be boasting of work made ready to my hand within another man's limit.

²³ Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as though I were beside myself), such, far, more, am I; in labors more abundant, in imprisonments also more abundant, in floggings beyond measure, in deaths often. ²⁴ Five times at the hands of the Jews, I have received one short of forty lashes. ²⁵ Three times I have been scourged by the Romans; once I have been stoned; three times have I been shipwrecked; a night and a day have I been adrift in the open sea. ²⁶ My journeys have been many; in perils of rivers, in perils of bandits; in perils from my countrymen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness; in perils on the sea, in perils among false brothers; ²⁷ in toil and weariness, often in sleepless watching, in hunger and thirst, often without anything to eat; in cold and in nakedness. ²⁸ Not to mention other things, there is the crowding pressure of each day upon me, the care of all the churches. ²⁹ Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble, but I burn with indignation? ³⁰ If boast I must, it shall be concerning my weakness.

¹¹ I am become a fool—you have forced me to; for you yourselves ought to have been my vindicators. In no respect am I inferior to these superapostolic apostles, even though I am nothing.

⁸ (for he who has equipped Peter for the apostleship to the circumcised, equipped me also for the apostleship to the Gentiles),

⁷ in order that he might show to the ages to come the amazing riches of his grace by his goodness to us in Christ Jesus. ⁸ For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is God's gift.

⁷ It is of this gospel I became a minister according to the gift of the power of the grace of God, bestowed on me by the energy of his power. ⁸ To me, who am less than the least of all saints, has this grace been given, that I should proclaim among the Gentiles the gospel of the unsearchable riches of Christ;

¹³ for it is God who, in his good-will is ever working in you both will and deed.

¹³ I am strong for everything in Him who gives me strength.

²⁸ Him I am ever proclaiming, warning every one and teaching every one, in all wisdom; that I may bring every man into his presence, full grown in Christ. ²⁹ For that end I am ever toiling, wrestling with all that energy of his which is mightily at work within me.

¹⁵ Faithful is the saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that "Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners"! And there is no greater sinner than I! ¹⁶ Yet for this very cause I obtained mercy, so that in me, the chief of sinners, Jesus Christ might display all his boundless patience as an illustration for those who should later believe in him, and so gain life eternal.